Two robust catechol-functionalized porous organic polymers (catPOPs) with different Td-directing nodes were synthesized using a cobalt-catalyzed acetylene trimerization (CCAT) strategy. Postsynthesis metallation was readily carried out with La(acac)3 to afford catalytically active Lafunctionalized catPOPs for the solvolytic and hydrolytic degradation of the toxic organophosphate compound methyl...

For the first time, the use of a traditional ionization source for ion mobility spectrometry (radioactive nickel ((63)Ni) beta emission ionization) and three alternative ionization sources (electrospray ionization (ESI), secondary electrospray ionization (SESI), and electrical discharge (corona) ionization (CI)) were employed with an atmospheric pressure ion mobility orthogonal reflector time-o...

The decontamination of chemical warfare agents (CWA) using an atmospheric pressure dielectric barrier discharge in air was investigated. Stainless steel samples inoculated with malathion (a surrogate for nerve agent VX) were placed on the cathode, where they were treated by the chemical active species produced in the streamers. An effective decontamination (>99.7 %) was achieved after 10 minute...

The synthesis, characterization and sensing features of a novel probe 1 for the selective chromogenic recognition of diisopropylfluorophosphate (DFP), a sarin and soman mimic, in 99:1 (v/v) water/acetonitrile and in the gas phase is reported. Colour modulation is based on the combined reaction of phosphorylation of 1 and fluoride-induced hydrolysis of a silyl ether moiety. As fluoride is a spec...

The formation of inclusion complexes of the water-soluble p-sulfonatocalix[n]arenes, where n = 4 or 6, with the Chemical Warfare Agent (CWA) GD, or Soman, and commonly used dialkyl methylphosphonate simulants has been studied by experimental solution NMR methods and by Molecular Mechanics (MMFF) and semi-empirical (PM6) calculations. Complex formation in non-buffered and buffered solutions is d...